Garga Samhita (English)
by Danavir Goswami | 425,489 words
The Garga-samhita Verse 1.11.3, English translation, including word-by-word: This text represents a Vaishnava scripture which narrates the life Krishna, It was composed in seventeen cantos by Garga Muni: an ancient sage and priest of the Yadu dynasty having. This is verse 1 of Chapter 11 (Description of Shri Krishnacandra’s Birth) of Canto 1 (goloka-khanda).
Verse 1.11.3
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning:
देवक्याम् आगते कृष्णे
सर्वेषाम् अभयङ्करे
रराज तेन सा गेहे
घने सौदमिनी यथा
devakyām āgate kṛṣṇe
sarveṣām abhayaṅkare
rarāja tena sā gehe
ghane saudaminī yathā
devakyām—in Devakī; āgate—arrived; kṛṣṇe—when Lord Kṛṣṇa; sarveṣām—of everyone; abhayaṅkare—giving fearlessness; rarāja—shone; tena—by Him; sā—she; gehe—in the home; ghane—intense; saudaminī—lightning; yathā—as.
English translation of verse 1.11.3:
When Lord Kṛṣṇa, who gives fearlessness to everyone, entered Devakī, she shone as if a great lightning flash had entered her home.